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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "In rehearsal, form and _____ have to be examined sometimes together, sometimes separately."
(a) Writing.
(b) Action.
(c) Justification.
(d) Content.

2. What is the term which embodies the emotional and spiritual experience that occurs in great tragedies?
(a) Exhaustion.
(b) Catharsis.
(c) Tears.
(d) Relief.

3. The strongest comedy is rooted in what?
(a) The absurd.
(b) The magical.
(c) Archetypes.
(d) Buffoonery.

4. The aim of acting exercises and improvisation in rehearsals is always the same, according to the actor, which is what?
(a) To aid in remembering lines.
(b) To get away from Deadly Theatre.
(c) To forget their worries.
(d) To find a system of Truth.

5. After a production of Love Labour's Lost, what did the author throw out and never work with again?
(a) Lighting designers.
(b) Set designers.
(c) Ham actors.
(d) Written plans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose recent production of Coriolanus underlines the whole question of where illusion begins and ends, according to the author (and the time the book was written)?

2. "If rehearsals are short, ______ is inevitable--but everyone deplores it, naturally," according to the author.

3. Which playwright does the author hold in the greatest esteem as one who combines the Rough Theatre with the Holy Theatre?

4. Who "is the key figure of our time, and all theatre work today at some point starts or returns to his statements and achievement," according to Brook?

5. "Anyone interested in processes in the natural world would be very rewarded by a study of" what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the difference between "Rough Theatre" and "Holy Theatre"?

2. What is the difference and similarity between a "Happening" and "alienation"?

3. In contemporary theatre, what does the author say is the most accessible way to find "holiness"?

4. What is the author's presumed opinion of the works and style of Brecht? How is Brecht similar to Shakespeare?

5. What is one example of Shakespeare's which the author uses as an example in "The Rough Theatre", and what is he saying with this example?

6. How does the author approach form and content between the actor and director?

7. How does the author view "pre-planning" in approaching a rehearsal process?

8. What is the audience's role in a final production?

9. How does the author discuss the process of theatre design?

10. What does the author speak of regarding Shakespeare and the Rough Theatre?

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